Oil-distributer



(No Model.)

B. WILLIAMS.

OIL DISTRIBUTER,

No. 394,319. Patented Dec. 11, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QF IQE.

EDVARD VILLIAMS, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

OIL-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,319, dated December 11, 1888.

Application filed $eptember 21, 1888. $eria1No. 285,975. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, EDWARD \YILLIAMS, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved OllINSl'l'lbUfGl' for Marine Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to oil-receptacles for marine vessels adapted to allow escape of the oil in rough weather to quiet the sea; and the object of the invention is to provide a receptacle of this character from which the escape of the oil may be made more or less rapid, as contingencies may require, the receptacle being of such shape as not to otter a too great resistance to the waterin being drawn therethrough, the shape being also (ilesigned with a view of causing its thorough agitation by the action of the waves, the violent tossing thus eflected causing the oil to be ejected therefrom.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more pantieularly described, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accoinpanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an oil-distribnter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section, and 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a portion thereof.

The oil-containing vessel or receptacle A is constructed of suitable metal and of a form approximating two truncated cones united at their bases. The outer surface of the receptacle is covered with a protective covering, B, of wood or cork, which is held to the same by bands C O. The central band, (I, is placed at the center of the vessel, and tapers in opposite directions, to correspond to the taper of vessel A and its covering, and when secured in place is thus not liable to become displaced. The bands (3 at each side of the center taper in one direction to correspond to the shape of the receptacle.

One end of the receptacle A is provided with a removable screw-cap, A, for the admission of oil, and the opposite end of the receptacle is provided with a permanent capplate, A formed with perforations a of a size and number to allow of the free escape of oil therethrough. The permanent cap A is also provided with a threaded neck, a, on which screws a threaded cap, a", which is formed with a series of perforations, a, of a size less than the size of the perforations u of permanent cap A Outside of the threaded neck a and its screw-cap a is formed on the cap A another threaded neck, of, which receives an imperforate cap, a, which, when in place, effects a complete closure of the receptacle, covering, as it does, the apertured screw-cap a It will be observed that the outer threaded neck, a", is of less height than the inner threaded neck, a, in order that when the outer screw-cap, (i is removed the inner apertured screw-cap, may be readily screwed on or off.

To the top or front end of the receptacle is secured a bail, D, or equivalent means, for the attachment of a chain or cable.

The distributer may be cast overboard and drawn along through the water, or it may be hung over the ships sides or in other desired part thereof, and the oil allowed to ooze into the water.

\Vh en the outer imperiorate cap, a, is re moved, the oil will escape through the perforated screw-cap a and, should its escape not be sufliciently rapid, the cap a may also be removed, whereby the oil will escape from apertures a quite freely.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

l. The combination, with the double-truncatedcone shaped receptacle having apertures for the tlow of oil, of a protective covering and the bands (I C, the band C being at the center and tapering in opposite directions to correspond to the double taper of the receptacle, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the receptacle, of a perforated end cap, a second perforated cap whose apertures are smaller than those of the first-named cap, and an imperforate cap outside of the said second perforated cap, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with an oildistribnt ing receptacle, of the permanent end cap, A formed witlrperforations a and with necks a a, of the inner perforated screw-cap, a on the neck a, the perforations of the cap (a be ing smaller than the apertures a and the outer imperforate screw-cap, a, on neck a, the outer I o neck, a, being of a less height than the inner neck, a, substantially as described.

ED\VARD VILLIAMS.

Vitnesses:

CYRUS M. TRACY, FRANK R. WHITTEN. 

